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DESIGNER LINE EMERALDS
In the fall of 2001 NOAH'S BOAS produced its first line of "Designer Emeralds". The
sire is an Emerald Basin and the dam a Northern Emerald. The results are spectacular! We did not undertake this project for
money-making purposes but rather as an attempt to create new, rare Emeralds. I do not consider this to be a hybrid project
as both animals are Emeralds. The only difference is the locality. I have been told by a few individuals that on rare instances
during their excursions into the Amazon, they have found "Nothern" Emeralds and "Basin" Emeralds co-existing
in the same regions, sharing the same body of water. I truly believe that they must breed on ocassion. In no way does this
project take precidence over my Northern X Nothern breeding projects or my Basin X Basin breeding projects, but rather it
is a nice addition to those. Most of us breeders dream of a future Emerald market which includes pied ball Emeralds or possibly
a solid red adult. Hopefully these "Designer Line Emeralds" will be the foundation for that dream.
Since producing our first litters of Designers in 2001 we have sucessfully bred and raised several
additional litters of Designer Emerald Tree Boas. Each generation is exhibiting many new and exciting characteristics we have
never seen before. For instance, one of the breeding girls is developing more and more white on her face and one
of the breeding males is displaying white flowers all over his body! Still others are gaining large amounts of blue
on their face and bodies. All of the 2001 Designers have dark slate gray to lightly colored eyes. Their green
colors range from dark green to a beautiful lime green. One of the girls looks more yellow than green! Some
of them have a lot of black bordering their green. Their bellies range from pearl white to yellowish/blue. They
are very unique indeed! We can only imagine what characteristics their offspring will display. We hope to have
updated photos of their new coloring on this page very soon.
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